LL:DDS: Adelaide Public Forum
Refugees are not criminals - Reject Australia's racist Laws on Refugees! The recent refugee laws introduced by parliament are inhumane and racist. Most of the detained asylum seekers are from third world countries and are fleeing severe persecution, war economic crisis. The same rules are not applied to other 'illegal immigrants', most of whom come from Britain, USA and other wealthy countries. Come to a discussion about these laws and how we can campaign against them. Wednesday February 9 @ 7pm Dinner available from 6.30pm Entry by donation Resistance Centre 34a Hindley St Adelaide Ph: 8231 6982 A Green Left Weekly Forum organised by the Democratic Socialist Party Resistance. LL.SB -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:INFO: Apology
Dear friends, There was an error in the message I sent yesterday concerning the World March of Women 2000 national organising committee. As there are eighteen, not sixteen, representatives of national women's organisations on the WMW2000 committee in Australia, I owe an apology to Women's Electoral Lobby and the National Women's Media Centre for the mistake. Sorry! Cathy Picone -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Melbourne Cuba Solidarity Mtg.
Green Left Weekly presents Politics in the Pub: Inside Cuban Socialism. Why has Elian Gonzales been offered $1 million by the USA? What happened to the ideas of Che Guevara? And an Eyewitness Report on Socialism: Cuban Style. Its an Open Forum featuring JORGE JOQUERA- Latin American solidarity activist, Melbourne Secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party and JO WILLIAMS - Union and solidarity activist recently returned from Cuba Feb 23. Wed 7pm at COMRADES BAR cnr Swanston and Queensbury St, Melb Phone 9639 8622 from more info LL.VB -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Melb Anti-Nuclear Meeting
A Nuclear Australia Public Meeting. Looking at Dumping Nuclear Waste, Beverly, Honeymoon, Jabiluka, Lucas Heights SPeakers: Dave Sweeny; Australian Conservation Foundation Daniel Voronoff; Friends of the Earth Jacob Grech; Earthworker Harry Van Moorst; Werribee Residents Against Toxic Dump Collingwood Town Hall (Hoddle Street Collingwood) Wed March 15th 7:30pm Meeting called by Australian Conservation Foundation, Friends of the Earth, NUS (Victoria), Earthworker For more info call ACF 9926 6704 or FOE 9419 8700 LL.VC -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: International Women's Day 2000 Melbourne Rally
Could people pls pass this email message onto the rest of the world! And if in Melb: pls come and pick up some posters. The Collective needs some helpful feminists to poster/leaflet/dress up as tampons/protest etc etc International Women's Day 2000 Melbourne Rally Saturday March 11, 12pm at State library (opposite Melbourne Central) Women of the World Unite and Fight Free Education for All Women! No Sweatshops, No Outwork - Real Wages for Women! Support the Struggle of Afghani Women - Full Political Rights Now! End all military ties with Indonesia - War Reparations for Timor! Reproductive Freedom for all - Free, legal abortion on demand! No GST - Tax Big Business! (demand around indigenous struggles being formulated in consultation) Attend the Rally to Struggle for Women's Rights! for IWD posters or for more information please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] LL.VC -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:ART: Textile workers 'to walk away with nothing'
The Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/news/0002/03/text/national21.html Textile workers 'to walk away with nothing' Date: 03/02/2000 By BRAD NORINGTON and MARK ROBINSON Most of the 300 workers who lost their jobs with the closure of National Textiles last month would walk away with nothing from an entitlements protection scheme proposed by the Federal Government, it was claimed yesterday. The scheme, which the Employment Minister, Mr Reith, will take to Cabinet on Tuesday, is meant to offer employees a maximum of $20,000 in cases where they lose entitlements when a company goes broke. But criticism of the proposal is growing amid State Government and union complaints that almost no workers would receive the maximum payout because of the way the scheme is structured. Employees also could be left in the position of having to pay back government funds in cases where an administrator appointed to oversee an insolvent company's affairs paid workers' entitlements after the sale of assets. The NSW Industrial Relations Minister, Mr Shaw, yesterday said the administrator appointed to the Hunter Valley-based National Textiles company had joined in the chorus of complaints that Mr Reith's proposed scheme was inadequate. Mr Shaw said his staff had met Mr John Starr on Tuesday night, and the Federal Government's scheme was discussed. "The administrator explained the technicalities as to how the payments would be made and how the Federal scheme would work," Mr Shaw said. "They say there would be some money, but the details simply emphasise it is very far from a generous package - in fact, it is plainly inadequate." Mr Starr is also understood to have relayed his complaint directly to Mr Reith's office. He declined to comment yesterday. A spokesman for Mr Reith confirmed discussions had been held with Mr Starr but declined to comment on what was discussed, saying he was surprised the meeting had been made public. He said the virtue of the Federal Government's scheme was that it could be "up and running now" and was meant to be "an extension of the social security welfare net, not a top-up scheme". Under the plan, employees would be eligible for up to $20,000 in a scheme jointly funded by the Commonwealth and States, back-dated to January 1. However, the maximum allowed is not guaranteed to workers whose total in lost entitlements exceeds $20,000 because the benefits are split into a maximum of four weeks' leave, five weeks' redundancy pay, 12 weeks' long service leave, four weeks' unpaid wages and four weeks' pay in lieu of notice. The secretary of the NSW Labor Council, Mr Michael Costa, claimed it was "dishonest" of Mr Reith to say $20,000 would be available because of the way payments were compartmentalised. Mr Shaw said he would push the Federal Government to increase the benefits offered to the sacked workers. He said NSW was prepared to match the Federal Government's contribution no matter how generous it was in an effort to ensure the workers were paid all the money they were owed. This material is subject to copyright and any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited. * This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:PR: This Week on BB Luxury Fever
Welcome to the First Background Briefing of the 2000 Season: - THIS WEEK On ABC Radio National's Background Briefing Program: - Sunday, February 6, 9.10am Repeated Tuesday, February 8, 7.10pm - LUXURY FEVER Produced by Tom Morton - ON-AIR PROMO: Did you know that, in baseball teams, where the superstar gets millions and the ordinary players only get hundreds of thousands, the teams tend not to do particularly well. The reason is each player plays for himself - to get into the millions bracket - and the team spirit suffers. They're saying that perhaps the same thing is happening in Corporations and wider society. Catch affluenza Background Briefing, Sunday morning after the news at 9. --- PRODUCER's SUPPLEMENT: Americans are in the grip of Luxury Fever according to some economists - a frenzy of conspicuous consumption the likes of which has never been seen before. Robert Frank believes that people are locked in an arms race of competition for the trappings of status and success which he says is making their lives less comfortable and less satisfying. In Australia, while our supply of high wealth individuals is rather more modest, we have more rich people than ever before and there are plenty of signs that we too are suffering from luxury fever. LAST WEEK: Transcripts now available on-line: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing ADELAIDE - CANNABIS CAPITAL Produced by Chris Bullock .. Background Briefing on ABC Radio National GPO Box 9994 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61-2-9333-1400 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. Subscribe or signoff weekly program announcements by: Sending an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBSCRIBE BBANNOUNCE SIGNOFF BBANNOUNCE(in body not 'subject' of message) or visit: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/bbmail.htm .. Transcripts: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing Tuning: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/freq/map.htm -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:PR: what's on earth matters this week 4/2
EARTH MATTERS can be heard on 3CR in Melbourne Sunday 11am, 2XX Canberra Tuesday 10am, 8CCC Alice Springs Sundays between 8-9pm, 2NCR Lismore Friday 10am, 5UV Adelaide Thursday 2pm, 7LTN Launceston Monday 7:30pm, 2VOX Wollongong between 9-10am much more!! Earth Matters Program 93a Juliet Fox 3CR Community Radio 03 9419 8377 ComRadSat Program 4/2/2000 INTRO : "Hello and welcome to =85" OUTRO : "... again next week." DURATION : 25'15" (frogs til around 26'30") World Wetlands Day 2000 On February 2nd 1971 the Convention on Wetlands was signed in the Iranian city of Ramsar, located on the edge of the Caspian Sea. The official title of the treaty is The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat - but nowadays it's more commonly known as the Ramsar Convention.=20 Sarojini Krishnapillai is a marine campaigner with the Victorian national parks association, where on World Wetlands Day they turned their focus to some local concerns. Today on Earth Matters Saro joins us and begins by describing just what sort of a wetland exists on Westernport Bay. IN: "Well the whole of Westernport Bay =85" OUT: "=85 needs protecting." DUR: 8'15" Campaign against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean On January 25th Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise cruised into Fremantle, Western Australia, after taking non-violent action against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean. Greenpeace says that Japan's Antarctic whaling program is in violation of articles 65 and 120 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas, a convention which sets out how states should follow the International Whaling Commission in protecting whales.=20 Japan continues to ignore both the commission and the convention and intends to kill 440 Minke whales this year. Today we hear from John Bowler, a Greenpeace campaigner on board the Arctic Sunrise, speaking from the ship docked in Fremantle. IN: "Yes well we've just come back from =85" OUT: "=85 of the global community." DUR: 10'10" -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Fretilin fundraiser
FRETILIN FUNDRAISING PARTY - 19 Feb There will be an Fundraising Party for Fretilin's office in East Timor on 19 February 2000 at the Dandenong South Progress Hall, 66 Hammond Road, Dandenong South, Victoria. You can arrive at 7.00pm. The party will go until late. The entrance fee is $8. There will be a live band, with a Timorese flavour. Contact Lito Santos (03) 9700-5639 or Teresa Santos (03) 9700-7235. *** Australia Asia Worker Links PO Box 264 Fitzroy Victoria 3065 Australia Tel: 03 9419 5045 Fax: 03 9416 2746 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LL.VB -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: May Day C/tee General Meeting
MAYDAY COMMITTEE General Meeting - 14 Feb Dear Comrade, The next General Meeting of the May Day Committee and its affiliates will be held on: Monday 14 February, 2000 at 7.30pm Old Ballroom Annex Trades Hall Building Carlton South, Melbourne, Victoria Affiliates of the May Day Committee should please notify delegates of the meeting. You can contact the May Day Committee via Secretary Vic Little on: phone: (03) 9419- fax: (03) 9416-1303 *** Australia Asia Worker Links PO Box 264 Fitzroy Victoria 3065 Australia Tel: 03 9419 5045 Fax: 03 9416 2746 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LL.VB -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:INFO: Nuclear disarmament publications and the NPT Review
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will be reviewed 24 April-19 May 2000, in New York at the United Nations. This Conference is particularly crucial as it is clear that, on a number of fronts, progress towards nuclear disarmament is stalled. It is very important that the urgency of nuclear disarmament is conveyed to the nuclear weapon states and their allies. This includes Australia, which could be taking a key role in leading the way towards nuclear disarmament rather than accepting inadequate efforts from the nuclear powers. If you would like more information on the NPT review or to receive regular updates please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are also two recent publications that provide comprehensive details of the state of nuclear disarmament and a way forward, Fast Track to Zero Nuclear Weapons and Security and Survival -- brief details of each below. Fast Track to Zero Nuclear Weapons The revised edition of the Middle Powers Initiative briefing book Fast Track to Zero Nuclear Weapons by Commander Rob Green is now available through MAPW. This book highlights the deepening nuclear weapons crisis, makes the case for the feasibility and desirability of rapid nuclear disarmament and explores the role that middle power governments, supported by citizens, can play in abolishing nuclear weapons. It provides an excellent overview of the state of nuclear disarmament. Essential reading in the lead-up to the Review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty on 24 April till 19 May in New York. 88 pp. illustrated. $20 from MAPW or the first edition is available in pdf format at http://www.middlepowers.org/ Security and Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention * How do we eliminate nuclear weapons? * How would we verify and enforce nuclear abolition? * How could we safeguard nuclear materials? * Should we eliminate delivery systems? Security and Survival helps answer these questions and in developing realistic approaches to advocating a nuclear weapons free world. In recent years demand has grown for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, a treaty of framework of treaties to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons. Security and Survival examines the desirability of a Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) and the form it might take. An annotated model NWC, a revision of the draft treaty circulated by the United Nations in 1997 as a discussion document, is included. Security and Survival is co-published by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear war (IPPNW), the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) and the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP). 144pp. illustrated. $15 from MAPW or it is available in pdf format at http://www.ippnw.org/ The Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) is an organisation of health professionals dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons. There is no adequate health response to a nuclear weapons explosion -- deliberate or accidental. In addition MAPW works for the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction and urges that financial, technical and human resources spent on armaments be directed to uses which promote the health and welfare of humanity. NO NUKES! Clare Henderson Executive Officer Medical Association for Prevention of War PO Box 197 O'Connor ACT 2602 AUSTRALIA Ph: (02) 6262 9345 Fax: (02) 62629346 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Free Timor Vigil Closing Ceremony
INVITATION TO ATTEND FREE EAST TIMOR CLOSING EVENT SUNDAY 6 FEBRUARY 12.00 PM - 2.30 PM INDONESIAN CONSULATE, QUEENS RD MELBOURNE At the request of Xanana Gusmal the Free Timor vigil will discontinue its occupation of the sire at the Indonesian Consulate, Queens Rd, Melbourne. The action is being taken as a gesture of conciliation toward the new Indonesian President Mr Abdurrahman Wahid. The vigil has operated 24 hours a day for close to 5 months. The vigil's primary objective has been to maintain awareness of the fact that tens of thousands of East Timorese cointinue to be held against their will in West Timor and other parts of Indonesia. The people in West Timor in particular are still in serious danger from attacks from the militia and are, in effect, being held as hostages. To highlilght this issue and mark the closure of the consulate action, the vigil collective, with the support of the Free East Timor Campaign, has organised an afternoon of events at the vigil site on Sunday 6 February. THE VIGIL INVITES YOU TO JOIN IN THIS ACTION AND DEMONSTRATE YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE RETURN OF THE HOSTAGES AND THE DEMAND THAT THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATROCITIES IN EAST TIMOR BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. A BBQ, other snacks and a range of events will be held from 12.00 pm, culinating at 2.30 pm in the release of balloons from the vigil site to symbolise the release of the East Timorese hostages. Please come along to share in these events and to allow us to express our appreciation for the support we have recieved form the people of Melbourne. Regards from the Vigil Collective. LL.VB -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
